2019-09-27 at 4:50 AM UTC
The gist was that the only thing ever on his agenda is trying to become president whilst maintaining a squeaky clean image, which he has obviously failed miserably at doing. He is not really the religious fanatic he is painted to be, that's a myth. The only reason he got put in that corner by the left is because he signed a bill that he took credit for but actually had nothing to do with and he didn't really care about it; only signing it because he thought it would help his popularity with his supporters but instead it massively backfired on him. A same-sex marriage ban bill I think.
He was a terrible governor not because of his policies necessarily but because he was so out of touch with everything and everyone and basically absent because he was spending all of his time rallying donors and making friends and influencing people that would be able to help him become president, because again, that's the only thing he really cares about, even now.
The thing is, he doesn't really want to become president by default either, he would rather rise up and do it himself in 2024 to save his all-important image. In 2016 he took a huge political gamble by tacking onto Trump's campaign, who by the way thought Pence was a loser with nothing to offer until he literally got stuck with him for a day when his jet's tire popped on the runway in Indiana and so he couldn't leave for 48 hours forcing him to finally meet up with Pence and find out if he was really up to it. Trump asked him if he was willing to be a "fighter" like Newt Gingrich and Pence shocked him by saying no, that he would be a loyal yes-man, but only as the calm, reserved neocon that he's always been (yet again with the "clean image" agenda). Somehow that swayed Trump that his demeanor and bible belt roots would get the quiet, principled conservatives in the rural parts of the country who would otherwise be too embarrassed or uneasy to jump onto the Trump train. Newt Gingrich did not obviously have those kinds of qualities, and Trump reconsidered. Anyway, this was a huge gamble on Pence's part because he believed (as did everyone) that Trump would lose, and this heightened exposure would be enough to give himself a fighting chance at the 2020 election. He lost the gamble, and instead got stuck at Trump's side for at least 4-8 years instead of 4 months like he planned.
Pence's wife Karen has always had a tremendous amount of influence on his policy decisions, so much that he will forgo his extra-conservative tendencies to push through things that she is really behind, like spending money on getting the infant mortality rate lower in Indiana despite all of Pence's cohorts telling him there isn't enough money in the budget to do so. Today, it's observed that she's been doing more of the duties of the Vice President than Mike has because (you guessed it) he's preparing for if and when he may become president. For the most Mike Pence has been completely hands off the president, yet very vocal and hands on within his assigned niche, which is being a staunch anti-abortion advocate trying to get Roe V Wade reversed, and doing the same for Obamacare.
A Mike Pence presidency would not be as the left proclaims. For all intents and purposes it would look like a George Bush-ish neocon kind of presidency, with the foreign and economic policies shifting back to the pre-Trump era. He would NOT take on a culture war asserting hyper-Christianness where it's not welcomed because A.) Mike Pence is not ultra Christian and is willing to set aside some principles when necessary, and B.) Waging a culture war would be terrible for his image, which he is not willing to compromise.
2019-09-27 at 5:02 AM UTC
Pence is a good man.
He appeals to real Americans and conservatives and 8 years of him would be enough to undo some of the damage that has been done to this nation over the several decades.
I don't think he would go the ZOG route at all.
2019-09-27 at 5:05 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
lol, he's more of a 'company man' than trump
